344 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



tip, reaching beyond the hind-hips: fore-chest very short; five fer" 

 ruginous ridges on the middle- chest whose tip is tawny : abdomen 

 obconical, not longer than the chest ; hind borders of the segments 

 tawny : oviduct lawny, slender, projecting beyond the abdomen to 

 half the length of the latter : legs pale tawny; thighs mostly brown ; 

 a single spine on each hind-shank: fore-wings almost colourless, 

 pale brown at the tips : cross-veins clouded with brown ; veins pale 

 yellow, adorned with rows of very numerous little brown dots : hind- 

 wings colourless ; veins black. Length of the body 2 lines; of the 

 wings 6 lines. 



a, b. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. F. D. Morgan. 



24. Cixius TESTACEUs, Fcm. 



Testaceus ; capitis vertex JJavo himnculatus ; mesothorax quinque- 

 carinatus^ disco subfulvus ; abdomeji Jlavo fasciatum, apice 

 albo lanuginosum ; pedes fulvi ; ahe antica; fuscce, apice fulvcB 

 aut limpidce ; vence fiavce guttis fuscis setiferis ornatce ; alee 

 posticcB sublhnpidce. 



Body testaceous : a high ridge bearing a yellow spot on each 

 side of the crown ; front and epistoma forming an almost spindle- 

 shaped compartment which is indistinctly angular on each side, has 

 a tawny middle ridge, and on each side near the ])ase of tbe epistoma an 

 angular yellow streak ; front a little shorter than the epistoma : fore- 

 chest very short : five ridges on the middle-chest whose disk is almost 

 tawny: abdomen a little longer than the chest; its lip thickly 

 clothed with long white filaments : hind borders of the segments 

 yellow beneath : legs tawny, grooved; hind-shanks armed with three 

 spines: fore-wings brown, tawny and partly colourless towards the 

 tips ; brand brown ; veins pale yellow, adorned with rows of very 

 numerous little brown dots, each of which bears a bristle ; a few 

 cross-veins close some of the areolets towards the tip ; hind-wings 

 almost colourless. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 7 

 lines. 



25. Cixiiis LATiFRONs, Mas. 



Niger ; caput fulvo cinctum, subtusjlavo bimaculatum ; mesothorax 

 tricar inatus ; abdomen flavo fasciatum ; pedes Jiavi ; femora 

 fusca ; tibice fusco subviltatcs ; alee anticce flavo-subfuscce. 



Body black : crown surrounded by a tawny border which has 

 a slight ridge on each side, and is rounded in front and notched be- 



